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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION UNDER ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE AND SHARIAT LAW

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Ms. Bhavana Chandramani Dhoundiyal, Dr. Rashmi Singh Rana
» doi: 10.48047/AFJBS.6.14.2024.4273-4294

Abstract

Female Genital Mutilation has been a routine practice in many parts of the world and has been a fuming issue since 2006, after 2015 it has been added as Goal 5 indicators, a part of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to focus on eliminating the practice by 2030. But the problem arises with community negotiations when it creates a strong fear among the people from abandoning the practice. Islamic Jurisprudence narrates a list of hadiths, qiyas and many ambiguous versions of Quran, showing different narratives form Islamic scholars, Jurists and Maulavi’s , who consider practice of Female Genital Mutilation as a mandatory obligation for the women of the community. The most interesting part of Shariat law is that the Jurisprudence of this practice only permeates within one section of the Muslim community, it is only practiced by Shia Muslim and not by the Sunni sect, even though Shia clan is a network of small group of Dawoodi Bohras who foster the procedure kin-to-kin, but factional differences between the community has opened doors for optional negotiations over the continuance of the practice among the female networks.

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